| Main Entry: | coincidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement; coexistence |
Synonyms: |
accompaniment, accord, accordance, collaboration, concomitance, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, consonance, correlation, correspondence, parallelism, synchronism, union |
Antonyms: |
clash, deviation, difference, disagreement, divergence, mismatch |
| Main Entry: | coincidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accidental happening |
Synonyms: |
accident, chance, eventuality, fate, fluke, fortuity, happening, happy accident, incident, luck, stroke of luck |
Antonyms: |
design, plan, scheme |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, luck |
Synonyms: |
accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap, haphazard, happening, hazard, heads or tails, hit*, in the cards, kismet, lot, lottery, luck out, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck, throw of the dice, toss-up, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
Antonyms: |
aim, design, plan, scheme |
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
Synonyms: |
Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | coexistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening or being at same time, place |
Synonyms: |
accord, coetaneousness, coevality, coincidence, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, contemporaneousness, harmony, order, peace, simultaneousness, synchronicity |
| Main Entry: | conjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, agreement, alliance, association, cahoots, coincidence, concomitance, concurrence, congruency, conjointment, hookup, juxtaposition, parallelism, partnership, tie-up, union |
| Notes: | a conjunction is a word that connects: a coordinating conjunction connects similar elements (you and I), while a correlative conjunction has related parts (either/or) |
Antonyms: |
detachment, disconnection, division, separation |
| Main Entry: | correspondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
Synonyms: |
accord, analogy, coherence, coincidence, comparability, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consistency, correlation, equivalence, fitness, harmony, likeness, match, regularity, relation, resemblance, similarity, symmetry |
Antonyms: |
difference, disagreement |
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
Synonyms: |
accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, conjuncture, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luck, chance |
Synonyms: |
accident, adventure, coincidence, dynamite, fling*, fluke, go*, hundred-to-one, long shot, lucky break, lucky hit, misfortune, mishap, possibility, risk, risky business, stroke of luck, toss-up, venture, wager, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
Antonyms: |
assurance, certainty, determination, fact, proof, reality, surety |
| Main Entry: | resemblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence, similarity |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, affinity, alikeness, analogy, birds of a feather, carbon copy, carbon, clone, closeness, coincidence, comparability, comparison, conformity, counterpart, double, facsimile, image, kinship, like of, likeness, look-alike, parallel, parity, peas in a pod, ringer, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, spitting image, two of a kind |
Antonyms: |
contrast, difference, dissimililarity, diversity |